I believe that is the study which classified 42mmol/mol HbA1c as remission? That is the approximate equivalent of ~7mmol/L average blood glucose. I’d classify that as a number that indicates an inbound diagnosis, rather than remission. But that’s probably drifting somewhat off topic .
That was it! Thank you Dark Horse! I agree with both @Jim Lahey and @bulkbiker is that is a little on the high side hence why I don't consider myself in remission but a work in progress. Better control always brings in more benefits than just lowering numbers, Jim is completely right.You may be thinking of the Counterbalance study which preceded the DIRECT trial. University of Newcastle's press office says this:-
The Counterbalance study published in 2016, demonstrated that Type 2 diabetes remains reversible for up to 10 years in most people, and also that the normal metabolism persists long term, as long as the person doesn’t regain the weight.
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2017/09/type2diabetesisreversible/
so I have read some articles about how people who have recently been diagnosed with type 2 lose weight they can get their blood sugar instantly down to normal and remain like that.....
i personally feel so lost and confused about everything, was only diagnosed a month ago.
People are saying weightloss and exercise will solve it and as long as I keep the weight off I’ll be fine.
Other people are saying you can never eat any high carb foods ever as it will damage you in the long run, but surely the odd takeaway or sweet wouldn’t hurt if it was a once every few weeks sort of thing?
I honestly wouldn’t be able to do Keto, I’ve tracked my carbs and find in having around 150g at the most which is mainly from non starch veggies and fruits.
And honestly I wouldn’t want to give up pastas, bread for good!, I always stick to wholewheat and don’t have huge portions anyway of startchy carbs.....
Sorry if you think I’m being dumb or stupid, one minute I’m so positive about it and the next I feel so down and hateful to my self about it all, I’m getting so depressed about it
Since being diagnosed a month ago I’ve lost a stone which I’m so happy about, I do slimming workd which helps a lot with motivation to lose weight....I literally eat pasta, rice and potatoes maybe once a week so not a lot at all, most of the fruits I eat are berries, clementine and apples, again I maybe have 2-3 portions of fruit....and I eat lots of veggies and fish (don’t eat meat) ....Sounds like you need to concentrate on getting your blood sugars down and having some success with weight loss. Once you get some successes there you may find that your views on what you want to eat change a bit.
Do you think you can avoid bread, pasta, and fruit for one month? 30 days isn't a long time so why not try that?
Meat, fish, eggs, green veg, cheese, cream and a few berries (50g say) maybe for a treat.
After 30 days you might find your tastes have changed and if, like many, the pounds have started to fall off then you might find you want to carry on.
@Mollyc1995 The thing about weight is that high insulin levels in your body encourage weight gain and inhibit weight loss. Insulin is a fat carrying hormone. Eating foods that require large amounts of insulin to cope with them will never aid weight loss. The starchy foods you eat, even only weekly, will raise your insulin levels. If you cut out the pasta, rice and so on you may find your weight drops off.
Why are you aiming for a 10% weight loss? Is this the only excess weight you are carrying, or will you still be overweight?
The problem with slimming world and other similar regimes is that once you have lost the weight and go back to "normal" eating it all piles back on (often with a bit more just to make you feel really bad). That's the way repeat business works.From a lot of articles I’ve read, it’s says most people who lost 10% of their starting weight managed to get into remission...so I’m interested to see what my blood glucose levels would be when I hit that......and I have quite a lot of weight to lost around 6.5 stone now as altogether since joining slimming world I’ve lost 1.5 stone......I’m not even struggling to lose weight either, I’m losing between 1.5 - 2.5 Lbs a week....so that’s why I haven’t given up pasta potatoes rice all together, I just cut back on them and had smaller portions.
I agree. Once I knew I had high blood sugars, I did what I needed to to get them under control and the weight fell off.In my opinion better glycemic control causes weight loss rather than weight loss causing better glycemic control.
The problem with slimming world and other similar regimes is that once you have lost the weight and go back to "normal" eating it all piles back on (often with a bit more just to make you feel really bad). That's the way repeat business works.
By following a low carb way of eating for me the pounds fell off and I could maintain that loss because I was always eating the meals I would carry on eating. Blood sugar s also came down too and I found that fasting became easier.
Your call what to do but weight loss (although it seems hard at the time) is far easier than weight loss maintenance which is where low carb appears to trump the other calorie restriction type methods.
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